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lethargizing

lethargizing is the present participle and gerund of lethargize.

Meaning of lethargize

Verb

lethargize (third-person singular simple present lethargizes, present participle lethargizing, simple past and past participle lethargized)

  1. To make lethargic.
    • May 23, 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
      All bitters are poison, and act by stilling, and depressing, and lethargizing the irritability.

Questions about lethargizing

What is lethargizing the present participle and gerund of?
Lethargizing is the present participle and gerund of lethargize.

Words near lethargizing in the dictionary

  1. lethargises
  2. lethargising
  3. lethargize
  4. lethargized
  5. lethargizes
  6. lethargizing
  7. lethargogenic
  8. lethargus
  9. lethargy
  10. Lethbridge
  11. Lethbridge County

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